The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur plans miscarry because they have no aim.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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One hand washes the other.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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